The Connecting Devon and Somerset (CDS) programme have announced that UK ISP Airband has upgraded their Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) based “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) network in remote rural parts of England’s Dartmoor and Exmoor National Parks, which should bring more capacity and reliability. Just to recap. The original £4.6m contract to cover 5,800 premises in […]
Cloud technology startup, Robin.io acquired by Rakuten Symphony
Silicon Valley-based cloud technology start-up, Robin.io has today been acquired by Rakuten Symphony, adding additional cloud-native capabilities to their portfolio of high performance cloud infrastructure and operations solutions.
The two organisations had already been cooperating for more than two years…
Hyperoptic targets two million premises
The 2021 Broadband Provider of the Year (Connected Britain Awards), Hyperoptic, has announced that its fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) network now covers more than 750,000 premises and serves more than 230,000 customers with full fibre broadband…
Ofcom UK Propose Upper 6GHz Band for Shared Access Licences
The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today proposed to make the upper 6GHz radio spectrum band (6425-7070MHz) available to Shared Access Licences for low-power, indoor use. But the move raises questions over the future use of this band to help improve 5G and WiFi performance, which has not yet been ruled out. Just to recap. […]
New Grant Opens to Boost Broadband in South Herefordshire
The Fastershire broadband project is starting to make a new Digital Household Grant (DHG) available to homes in some rural parts of South Herefordshire (i.e. those that were originally due to receive FTTP broadband via UK ISP Gigaclear), which will enable them to help cover the installation cost of an “interim broadband solution.” The new […]
Civil Engineer Firm O’Connor Utilities Acquires FKS (UK) Limited
Civil engineering firm O’Connor Utilities (OCU Group Limited), which among other things is helping a number of operators to build full fibre broadband ISP networks across the UK (Netomnia, CityFibre, Ogi etc.), has today announced the acquisition of telecom installation service provider FKS (UK) Limited. Since 2010 FKS, which has offices in the North of […]
Meta’s subsea investments to contribute $500bn to APAC & European economies
In a bid to prove the commercial value of investment in subsea infrastructure, Meta has commissioned two studies by Analysys Mason and RTI International to explore the economic impact of their investments in APAC and Europe…
DISH smartens up standalone, 5G cloud based network
DISH Wireless have announced a further enhancement to what they call America’s first Smart Network™ with a new partnership to assist in construction, deployment and maintenance of its standalone…
64 countries now have NB-IoT networks deployed
The latest announcement from the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) demonstrates the ongoing growth of NB-IoT networks, the technology that provides improved indoor and outdoor coverage and supports massive numbers of low throughput IoT devices…
Hyperoptic Aim Gigabit Broadband at 2 Million UK Homes by 2023
City-focused broadband ISP Hyperoptic, which is backed by global investment firm KKR, has today confirmed that their alternative “full fibre” (FTTP/B) network has now covered over 750,000 UK premises. The operator has also set a new target of covering 2 million homes by the end of 2023. The provider – one of the country’s oldest […]